The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, October 9, 2016. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. 
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HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
2. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
3. The Trespasser
Tana French, Viking, $27, 9780670026333
4. Manitou Canyon
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $24.99, 9781476749266
5. Two by Two
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $27, 9781455520695
6. Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $27, 9780316403436
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
8. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
9. A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250022134
10. Razor Girl
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385349741
11. The Nix
Nathan Hill, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101946619
12. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26, 9781501132933
13. Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer, FSG, $28, 9780374280024
14. News of the World
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $22.99, 9780062409201
15. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $26, 9780345539960
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen, S&S, $32.50, 9781501141515
2. Hero of the Empire
Candice Millard, Doubleday, $30, 9780385535731
3. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
4. Is This the End?: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World
David Jeremiah, Thomas Nelson, $24.99, 9780718079864
5. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $30, 9781501145247
6. Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, et al., Workman, $35, 9780761169086
7. Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9781627790628
8. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
9. Alton Brown: EveryDayCook
Alton Brown, Ballantine, $35, 9781101885710
10. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25, 9780812988406
11. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95, 9781771642484
12. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $28, 9781501139888
13. Armageddon
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Humanix, $24.99, 9781630060589
14. Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers
Bob Eckstein, Clarkson Potter, $22, 9780553459272
15. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25, 9780812993547
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9780735212152
2. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
3. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16, 9781501112331
4. Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15, 9781101911921
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781501115073
6. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
7. Me Before You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143109464
8. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
9. The Queen's Accomplice
Susan Elia MacNeal, Bantam, $16, 9780804178723
10. The Heavens May Fall
Allen Eskens, Seventh Street, $15.95, 9781633882058
11. Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $16, 9781451645859
12. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $17, 9781501106484
13. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
14. Slade House
David Mitchell, Random House, $16, 9780812988079
15. Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $16, 9781439157282
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem, Random House, $18, 9780345408167
2. Yuge!
G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449481339
3. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812984965
4. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
5. Roughneck Grace: Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and Other Brief Essays from On and Off the Back Forty
Michael Perry, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $18.95, 9780870208126
6. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124739
7. The Road to Character
David Brooks, Random House, $18, 9780812983418
8. The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf, Vintage, $17, 9780345806291
9. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
10. M Train
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16, 9781101910160
11. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
12. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438
13. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson, Plume, $16, 9780143129202
14. Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634727
15. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16, 9780762447695
 
MASS MARKET 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $9.99, 9780735212169
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062472106
4. The Guilty
David Baldacci, Vision, $9.99, 9781455586400
5. Blue
Danielle Steel, Dell, $8.99, 9780425285404
6. The Survivor
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Pocket, $9.99, 9781476783468
7. It's Your Party, Die If You Want to
Vickie Fee, Kensington, $7.99, 9781496700643
8. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $5.99, 9780743477123
9. Breaking Creed
Alex Kava, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425277942
10. Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris, Ace, $7.99, 9780441016990
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Eek! Halloween!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9780761193005
2. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142501122
5. Otis and the Kittens
Loren Long, Philomel, $17.99, 9780399163982
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99, 9780060254926
7. Ada Twist, Scientist
Andrea Beaty, Abrams Books for Young Readers, $17.95, 9781419721373
8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905
9. Hooray for Halloween, Curious George
H.A. Rey, Margret Rey, HMH Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780544699564
10. Penguin Problems
Jory John, Lane Smith (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780553513370
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
3. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605
4. Ice-Out
Mary Casanova, University of Minnesota Press, $16.95, 9780816694174
5. Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White
Melissa Sweet, HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780544319592
6. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781484732748
7. Holding Up the Universe
Jennifer Niven, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780385755924
8. The Great Shelby Holmes
Elizabeth Eulberg, Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, $16.99, 9781681190518
9. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780545722865
10. Falling Over Sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780545863247
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES TITLES
1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $11.99, 9781594749025
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition
J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $39.99, 9780545791328
3. The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423160922
4. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two
J.K. Rowling, et al., Arthur A. Levine Books, $29.99, 9781338099133
5. Tales of the Peculiar (Companion to Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
Ransom Riggs, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $24.99, 9780399538537
6. Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $10.99, 9781594747359
7. The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie)
Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $9.99, 9781423178286
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419717017
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (2015)
J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $39.99, 9780545790352
10. The Fever Code (The Maze Runner, #5)
James Dashner, Delacorte Press, $18.99, 9780553513097